Technological innovation is playing a critical role in the development of the country’s economy by making business operate faster, a senior official at the Ministry of Commerce told a seminar last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Foreign Minister, Hor Namhong, and visiting Japanese Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Masakazu Hamachi, on Monday in Phnon Penh exchanged views on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue. កម្ពុជា, ជប៉ុនផ្លាស់ប្តូរទស្សនៈគ្នាលើបញ្ហានៅឧបទ្វីបកូរ៉េ  ss='cambodia-color'>...

After fleeing religious persecution in Myanmar, Mohammed Rashid found himself on a circuitous route to Phnom Penh. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the lead-up to the upcoming elections, three provinces have been selected to participate in a three-year project designed to encourage women, first-time voters and the youth to actively participate in politics. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has allocated $5 million across the Kingdom’s 46 sub-districts and towns to help with waste management by national and local institutions. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Social AffairS MiniSter Vong Soth Said on Monday that all civil ServantS muSt Support the Cambodian People&rSquo;S Party or reSign from their jobS, and warned that the government will uSe bamboo rodS to bludgeon anyone who proteStS after next year&rSquo;S election. SS='cambodia-color'>...

A group of eight U.S. congreSSmen haS called on the State Department to continue itS public condemnation of the continuing crackdown on diSSent and arreSt of the leader of the oppoSition in Cambodia. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The central banks of Cambodia and China are in talks to share customers’ credit reports in an effort to boost bilateral private investment, as a response to rising trade between the two countries. The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) director general Chea serey told Khmer Times ss='cambodia-color'>...

A toxic culture of masculinity in Cambodia is contributing to the spread of HIV from husbands to wives, according to a study in the American Journal of Men’s Health. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly’s permanent committee will today schedule a plenary session of parliament to debate and vote on laws that would ban the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party from associating with its former leader sam Rainsy, or ever using images of his face, recordings of ss='cambodia-color'>...

With the fate of the CNRP still in the supreme Court’s hands, the National Assembly yesterday paved the way for all of the main opposition party’s seats to be handed over to a smattering of smaller parties and, at the local level, to the ruling ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 400 Laotian soldiers have crossed into Cambodian territory to block military engineers from constructing a road, sparking an armed buildup in the border area over the past two weeks, Cambodian officials said on sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Court of Appeal on Tuesday rejected the request of five families from Koh Kong province to nullify the deals they made seven years ago to give up their land to a local sugarcane plantation on the grounds that they were coerced. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After a year of toothless warnings against below-cost mobile deals – which it previously called “suspicious” and “unfair” – the country’s telecommunications regulator yesterday capitulated, instead beseeching operators to steer clear of confusing marketing and maintain the quality of their services. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The United StateS haS pledged 20 million U.S. dollarS over the next three yearS to the United NationS World Food Program (WFP) to carry out School feeding program in Cambodia, Said a WFP preSS releaSe on TueSday. The Statement Said the donation, made by the U.S. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Japanese ambassador is set to meet with senior police officials to discuss the shooting of a Japanese tourist in Phnom Penh on saturday, according to an embassy official, while the U.s. Embassy on Monday said it was “very troubled” by a similar attack on ss='cambodia-color'>...

After receiving burns to 40 per cent of his body in an acid attack and undergoing surgery five times, 41-year-old Hak Ay now has blurred vision in both eyes, according to the Cambodian Acid survivors Charity (CAsC). The survivor of this year’s first recorded acid attack ss='cambodia-color'>...

The consequences and containment of violence cost the Cambodian economy over $1.5 billion in 2013, just under 10 per cent of its estimated GDP for the period, according to the Institute for Economics & Peace’s Global Peace Index released yesterday. According to IEP executive chairman ss='cambodia-color'>...

Marubeni Corp. said Monday that it would acquire a 20 percent stake in a Cambodia-based electricity generation and transmission business owned and operated by Malaysia’s Leader Group, marking Japan’s first foray into Cambodia’s power market. Leader Infrastructure Ltd. operates two 50 megawatt coal-fired power stations in ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 200 residents from seven villages in Ratanakkiri province’s Taveng district have filed a complaint to the local Administrative Fisheries Department and two right groups over claims that rival anglers in the area are collecting fish in their protected lot by poisoning the catch. ss='cambodia-color'>...